[Newbies] Adding method to Smallinteger class

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net> writes:


Herbert> larger: anInteger
Herbert>   "return the larger of self and anInteger
Herbert>   6 larger: 10
Herbert>   "
Herbert>   anInteger > self ifTrue: [^anInteger] ifFalse: [^self]

or even

  larger: anInteger
  ^self max: anInteger

Code re-use, bay-bee.

And to see what defines "max:", open a "method finder",
type "max:" in the proper window, and you can see the three classes
that define "max:".  The one closest to yours is "Magnitude", which
is anything that has a linear comparability.

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